Grocott's Mail
  • NEWS
    • Courts & Crime
    • Features
    • Politics
    • People
    • Health & Well-being
  • SPORT
    • News
    • Results
    • Sports Diary
    • Club Contacts
    • Columns
    • Sport Galleries
    • Sport Videos
  • OPINION
    • Election Connection
    • Makana Voices
    • Deur ‘n Gekleurde Bril
    • Newtown… Old Eyes
    • Incisive View
    • Your Say
  • ARTSLIFE
    • Makana Sharp!
    • Visual Art
    • Literature
    • Food & Fun
    • Festivals
    • Community Arts
    • Going Places
  • OUR TOWN
    • What’s on
    • Spiritual
    • Emergency & Well-being
    • Safety
    • Civic
    • Municipality
    • Weather
    • Properties
      • Grahamstown Properties
    • Your Town, Our Town
  • OUTSIDE
    • Enviro News
    • Gardening
    • Farming
    • Science
    • Conservation
    • Motoring
    • Pets/Animals
  • ECONOMIX
    • Business News
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Personal Finance
  • EDUCATION
    • Education NEWS
    • Education OUR TOWN
    • Education INFO
  • Covid-19
  • EDITORIAL
Facebook Twitter Instagram
Trending
  • Dancing in the white cube
  • No crossbows this time
  • Art meets the ghetto
  • Fire is life … and it flirts with darkness
  • Prompting Poppins
  • Watch out for the lava
  • Writing towards repair
  • A transgressive tour de force
Facebook Twitter Instagram
Grocott's Mail
Cue Media
  • NEWS
    • Courts & Crime
    • Features
    • Politics
    • People
    • Health & Well-being
  • SPORT
    • News
    • Results
    • Sports Diary
    • Club Contacts
    • Columns
    • Sport Galleries
    • Sport Videos
  • OPINION
    • Election Connection
    • Makana Voices
    • Deur ‘n Gekleurde Bril
    • Newtown… Old Eyes
    • Incisive View
    • Your Say
  • ARTSLIFE
    • Makana Sharp!
    • Visual Art
    • Literature
    • Food & Fun
    • Festivals
    • Community Arts
    • Going Places
  • OUR TOWN
    • What’s on
    • Spiritual
    • Emergency & Well-being
    • Safety
    • Civic
    • Municipality
    • Weather
    • Properties
      • Grahamstown Properties
    • Your Town, Our Town
  • OUTSIDE
    • Enviro News
    • Gardening
    • Farming
    • Science
    • Conservation
    • Motoring
    • Pets/Animals
  • ECONOMIX
    • Business News
    • Entrepreneurship
    • Personal Finance
  • EDUCATION
    • Education NEWS
    • Education OUR TOWN
    • Education INFO
  • Covid-19
  • EDITORIAL
Grocott's Mail
You are at:Home»Uncategorized»Sanef condemns Swazi editor sentencing
Uncategorized

Sanef condemns Swazi editor sentencing

_Gr0cCc0Tts_By _Gr0cCc0Tts_April 18, 2013No Comments2 Mins Read
Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Tumblr Email

The South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) has issued a statement condemning the conviction and sentencing in Swaziland of Bheki Makhubu, editor of The Nation magazine, on charges of “scandalising the court”.

The South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) has issued a statement condemning the conviction and sentencing in Swaziland of Bheki Makhubu, editor of The Nation magazine, on charges of “scandalising the court”.

Makhubu was sentenced to two years in jail, or a R200 000 fine, after contempt charges were brought against him by Swaziland's Attorney General Majahe-nkhaba Dlamini, over two articles dealing with the attitude of judges, including the Chief Justice, to the constitution.

The Sanef statement says the use of contempt charges to silence legitimate scrutiny of judicial conduct and attitudes “will do nothing to secure the dignity and credibility of Swaziland's courts”.

Instead such charges will do precisely the opposite because this judgement is more likely to engender doubt, criticism, and suspicion of Swaziland's courts rather than create respect.

Sanef committed itself to working with other regional and local organisations to support Makhubu.

It also urged the South African government and the African Union to more vigorously remind the Swazi authorities of the importance of a free press and open democratic environment.

Previous ArticleBusinessman forks out for station
Next Article Nuwe Mills & Boon in Afrikaans: Genoeg gehyg!
_Gr0cCc0Tts_

Related Posts

Johan Carinus tree planting

Learn music fit for a king

First place for Malawian journalist- Need to upload Pix

Comments are closed.

Cue for you!
Cue for you!
Cue for you!
Tweets by Grocotts
Newsletter



Listen

The Rhodes University Community Engagement Division has launched Engagement in Action, a new podcast which aims to bring to life some of the many ways in which the University interacts with communities around it. Check it out below.

Latest video

Weather    |     About     |     Advertise     |     Subscribe     |     Contact     |     Support Grocott’s Mail

© 2022 Maintained by School of Journalism & Media Studies.

Type above and press Enter to search. Press Esc to cancel.